Willa Cather Quotes
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
Topics
Sexism, Sexists
Talent
Misogyny, Anti-Female, Anti-Feminism
Gender Equality, Gender Inequality
Gender Roles, Gender Identity
Sarcasm
Criticism
Religion & God
Divine Humor
Divine Trust
Double Standards
Gender Bias
Gender Stereotypes
Human Frailty
Patriarchal Society
Unfair Expectations
Women's Abilities
Citations
Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin, 1915.
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Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.